AND IN THIS CORNER, WEARING COMMIE RED WITH A SWASTIKA….

Hello again to those of you not actively hunting me for impuging the character of your lord, savior and role model for your children. Not sure who I meant? Really? This guy’s the above the fold, front page story of every news agency from Borneo to Timbuktu . I think life on other planets may be reading the next installment of “As The World Pukes”. Honestly, I’m barely past the point where I don’t vomit in my mouth a little when I hear his name.

I may be one of the world’s largest inhalers of horror, sci-fi, good guys don’t always win, O Henry kind of irony that made my mom and now my wife keep my books and cinema in the basement so the neighbors wouldn’t see. (and small children couldn’t see). It’s sorta like Playboy but the naked women would get sliced to ribbons, eaten or impregnated by gruesome creatures of some ilk or another. Then there’s my wife.

When I met her she already had a selection on her shelves that put Reader’s Digest or the American Librarians’ Association to shame. A truly amazing collection that could fill an area at Barnes and Nobel or a few quality library stacks. Me, as reported, I’m a Stephen King, Roger Zlazny, Robert Heinlein kinda guy. Over the last seven years of a truly happy marriage, something has changed. I’ve become a news junkie. I mean voracious! Mrs watches the local stuff for weather, a light slice of headline stuff and a feel good story. Now I cheat because she’s still working her butt off to pay for me. I’ve gone full throttle! CNN, BBC, C-Span, etc, but mostly MSNBC. I’ve been chastised by some of my Republican friends, feeling that I’m not watching a balanced viewpoint to get a full picture of both sides. My response is this – most of the MSNBC anchors are, or were, Republicans. Don’t know if I’m breaking any laws here but look, Morning Joe, hosted by former Republican Representative Joe Scarborough and his wife Mika, daughter of Zbigniew Brezhinske. Pretty sure I mispelled nearly all of that, my apologies to Joe and Mika. Nicole Wallace, former Deputy Communications Director for George W, the list goes on, as does the guest list. Pundits and former government employees who are (or were) dyed in red Republicans. Michael Steele – a former Lt Governor and one time head of the RNC. Liz Cheney – once a high ranking member of the House Republican caucus, The Hon Judge J. Michael Luttig – a king of the hill appeals court judge, New Hampshire governor Sununu, George Conway and even Trump’s former Attorney General,.William Barr. Let’s skip ahead a bit.

Donald Trump is in what blue collar folks would call a boat load of trouble. I call it something along that line but it’s been pointed out that I drift far past the point of potty mouth so okay for now. I grant that many of those now testifying, or at least speaking, ahem, candidly are doing so to avoid perjuring themselves or to rewrite their own dark history. These have to be put in their own special category. Others have been open from the first salvo that came from the House Select Committee. A minimally bi-partisan committee to be sure but nonetheless, presenting a narrative that was damning in it’s own right. Once again with testimony, documents,, recorded phone conversations, text messages and a trail of destroyed or mislaid evidence coming from (wait for it) Republicans. I am registered to vote as an Independent, hoping to vote for the best man or woman up and down the ballot. Alas (always liked that word, sounds like a Gone With The Wind starter) I’ve had no serious candidate since Ralph Nader to vote for. You can’t count Ross Perot and Admiral Scowcroft. I mean the Admiral forgot to turn his hearing aid on for the debate. What possessed Comey to make the statement regarding Clinton that close to the presidential election we’ll never truly know, but he’ll have to wear those chains as he walks beside Jakob Marley in the next “Christmas Carol”. We watched it happen in slo-mo. The dog caught the car, flattened the tires and pissed all over the interior. When it came time to return to the kennel the big dogs scared the hell out of him. To avoid getting thrown in with the other mangy curs he tried to go under the fence with the help of some other flea bags. Sound about right? Amazing how deep he dug, burying others behind him or leaving them for dead. Not too unbelievable, but the way he spits on those he climbs over on his way up, out or over, now that’s where I AM amazed because he doesn’t give a shit about them, you, us ; it doesn’t matter. Remember him telling all you Jan 6th warriors that he’ll be there with you? Did you really think he could walk that far? It took him over half an hour, upside down bible in hand, to stand military men in front of a church. Now there’s a visual for all you far and near right wing Christians. It really looked good after unmarked Federal officers gassed and beat passive demonstrators on public grounds because the orange asshole wanted a photo shoot. Don’t forget the helicopter flyover too.. Orange butt hole, couldn’t he get one of his boys to wipe it while kissing it? Those of you missing family and friends because you’re serving time for Trump, are you feeling loved and respected? Two verses and a chorus of “Kumbaya” make you feel loved. The money it’s gonna cost you or your families in legal fees and fines may severely harm you and your lover, spouse or kids. Feelin’ the love? How many brothers and sisters are giving him their minimum Social Security money for the fight ahead?? His fight ahead ain’t with the Dems, it’s 91 counts of federal crimes. The same federal crimes those hundreds of attackers are languishing for!! Federal Crimes!! It excludes you from many jobs! You can’t even vote for him in some states. For this we fought wars, risked our lives. You get to look your kids in their eyes and say “Yes, I was in prison but it doesn’t count ’cause I did it for Trump”. Really?!

It’s the other way around folks. He couldn’t hack it on either side of the fence. On one side, most of the Representatives and Senators professed to hate his guts. Hated his guts until the head of the FBI gut shot Secretary Clinton and leveled the playing field. As I’ve said, I don’t know if Comey had malice aforethought but given the last 6 years of Republican crap while gaming the system….? Most Congressmen and women toil in anonymity unless they do something, good or bad, that brings their names to our attention. But let’s flashback a bit. Obama’s term with a Republican Senate fought and clawed for every piece of every pie. The ACA (Obamacare) was maligned and misrepresented by Republicans every moment since conception up to this last week of 2023. Where is the repeal and replace the Republicans have promised for 10+ years? If they could they’d repeal in a heartbeat!! But where’s the replacement to match penny for penny the same quality, pre-existing condition acceptance, rebate allowing, $35/mo insulin cap, Pharmco bargaining Republican plan? Don’t they like it because it cuts some insurance company’s bottom line? Or maybe because it put 20 or so million people where they belong? Insured! Is it perfect, hell no! Have any but a handful of Republicans who place people before party tried to help? Hell no! And those Republicans are fed up and leaving. As an Independent I find that saddening for our country. Many, beside myself, fear we will never again see the GOP that was indeed grand. The people I’d most like to reach and hear from are buried beneath the necrotic flesh of the new ghastly old party.

Where were we? Oh yeah, 00BT (before Trump) Zero years before Trump. Chest thumping, by the rules McConnell, denied Obama his Supreme Court pick. For the man who insulted your wife on a regular basis? What was that reason? Oh yeah, too close to election. Such a lying sack of shit for an excuse he had to blush and look down while he said it. Too close to an election? Who did we miss out on? Merritt Garland! The guy wouldn’t use the office mail machine to send a sick staff member a personal get-well card. Really think he’d do anything outside the rules or seek self agrandizement? Wasn’t too close when ya jammed Barrett down the Dem’s throats..Who’d we get instead? A three of a kind, can’t look ya in the eye, group of politically motivated liars to whom integrity seems to mean little or nothing. Count up Thomas’ kick backs and divide by the times he should have recused and add it with the millions of blue collar folks like you and me who’ve been screwed year after year. There are some moments of levity. If Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh got their way there’d be no same sex marriage, no transgender healthcare and my fave, no mixed race marriage. Don’t know how to break this to ya Mrs. Thomas – but you ain’t black! Hell Mrs. Thomas, you ain’t even tan! How would that feel Justice T? To have your family attacked for something you did, not even something wrong, like doing the sworn duty of your office, like counting the votes in Atlanta? How would that feel? How ’bout someone carving swastikas into the paint of that free mobil home? Or how about men in hoods stand on your MOM’S lawn screaming some foul, vile shit or maybe burn a cross on the lawn? How about maybe that nephew, you’re not really paying for, maybe gets shot in the back by a white cop who thought he looked out of place in the neighborhood? The “Trial”? “Well, I thought he had a gun” (in a Southern drawl for effrct) Oops. Or maybe just a plain ol’ step on your neck til ya die hold? Judge Alito, hmm, Alito, what is that? Japanese? Korean? Say, did you bring in the chinky flu? Well ya’ll look the same to me slope! Do you have a birth certificate? Sucks, don’t it? Amy, Brett and Neil all sat in front of congress and SEEMED to say Roe v Wade had standing, past practice and shouldn’t be revisited. Forgive me my wife, I gotta. YOU FUCKING LIARS!!

This year was the absolute zenith for the House Republicans to show the world that they got game!. Here we go. So 2016 goes to an almost human, self proclaimed real estate mogul. All the contestants lick their wounds and piss on the place they hope will be the soon to be filled tomb of Donald J Trump. Instead he begins his transparent term of office by yucking it up with some Russians in the Oval Office while openly showing a proclivity for diarrhea of the mouth. Recognizable by vomiting secret info to the Russian head of mission while thanking him for his country’s interference in our election. That’s pretty transparent I guess. Don’t worry, it won’t come out because the special investigator’s report will be castrated by his Attorney General, William Barr. You remember him, cleansing his soul (as if he still had one) to the J 6 committee.

So our then Commander in Chief wants to lob ordinance into Mexico. Remember, one of his first official acts was to lob cruise missiles OVER Syria. What do those puppies cost to toss in the drink? About a mil per? He insults most of Europe (except Boris in Britain) while all but pulling us out of NATO. He likes countries that have big military parades like Russia and North Korea. Proves he’s as tough as Kim and Putin and Orban and George Santos and who’s that trash talking house blond with all that grace as a Q-Anon spouting, red neck daughter of the South? You know the one, the classy B word of a broad calling Biden a liar from the back of the room during the State of the Union address.. Her! Trump’s definitely as tough as her. All those folks really helped McCarthy perform his duties for what, about 7-8 months? The Republican house that needed House Democrats to keep the government open, then lied about it and then reneged on the deal. No wonder people are lined up to run for those seats, I mean good pay, comfy conditions, no real work to speak of, truth not an issue, bragging rights to…um to…hey, what are they bragging about? Bill’s passed in one year? Nah…least bills passed, maybe. Most elections for House Speaker ☆check! Most years attacking a sitting president’s son (6) to impeach the sitting president with no evidence of any crime whatsoever and pushing the Justice Dept. to charge the boy with crimes the special investigator knew of for about 5 years.IRS crimes not usually winding up in court. He had paid the back taxes, fines and penalties long before being charged. Oh yeah,the weapons charge. While under the influence he signed that he wasn’t under the influence and purchased a hand gun that he never fired, never loaded hell, never even took out of the case! Thank your gods ya got him off the street! A real Clyde Barker, Al Capone type. I feel much safer. Really, this is the shit you’re proud of?☆ Check! If you see this honey, it’s why I use that F word so much. Sorry

The upcoming 2020 elections. Five months before the election he and his fellow GOP nominees are already crying foul. Trump, of course, leading the refrain of STOLEN ELECTION. Nobody really knew what was coming after 2016. But most of us, meaning people who weren’t shooting up bleach or demanding our MDs hook us up with Levachloraquin, we knew. We knew we probably wouldn’t survive as a democratic nation through a second Trump term. Stories were circulating already from 2019 forward through the election and the consequences we saw AFTER the election.

I realize this has gone WAY beyond a blog and has morphed into a manifesto of sorts, so we’re gonna call this part one. And thank my gods over the winter solstice as I watch my grandchildren keep the economy in the black via any toy store reachable by car or any store on the web not reachable by car.. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah. Thanks to our troops and all those keeping us safe. What Tiny Tim, I forgot something?

Gods Bless Us, Everyone

End of part one